Hull side plates are accurately produced w/correct horizontal upper edge

Slide-molded 105mm barrel is produced

Turret-lop MG pedestal w/accurate design

Late MG and barrel storage brackets w/great detail

On-vehicle tools are realistically produced

Two types of sprockets provided as option

Finely rendered headlight and horn guards

Detailed hatch-periscope units w/clear parts and guards

Tow hooks w/fine detail

DS T48 track w/EEC (Duckbills)

More than 50,000 examples of the famous M4 Sherman tank were built in the USA, meaning only the Russian T-34 was produced in greater numbers during WWII. Throughout production a great number of M4 variants were spawned, among them a tank armed with a 105mm howitzer gun. The rationale behind this vehicle was to create a tank able to provide fire support missions against hardened targets such as bunkers or buildings harboring enemy soldiers. The 105mm howitzer-armed tank could carry 66 rounds of ammunition, and it operated with a crew of five men. These howitzer tanks were used by both the US Army and by the USMC in the Pacific theater.

Dragon has created a new 1/35 scale kit of an M4 (105mm) Sherman, of which 800 were produced at the Detroit Arsenal from February-September 1943. Although a variation of the M4 Sherman tank with VVSS running gear, the kit offers many newly tooled parts. Brand new components in the kit include the engine deck, gun shield, spare track links and a rack for holding aiming stakes. The kit is highly detailed, with even the rifling inside the muzzle of the 105mm slide-molded plastic howitzer barrel fully rendered. To finish off the exemplary detail on this tank kit, Dragon includes T48 track links with extended end connectors (EEC, more commonly known as "duckbills") made from DS. This is an important variant of the M4 Sherman, and Dragon allows modelers to create a fine 1/35 miniature of this very vehicle straight from the box.